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l WIRE WEAVING FENCE MACHINE.' N0. 532,240. v Patented Jan.v 8,189.5.

INVENTOR w @mgm Attorney UNITED STATESY PATENT i OFFICE.

EDWARD S. MORGAN, OF RICHMOND, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO HAGGERT S. COCHRANE,OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, AND GRACE COCHRANE, OF ST.

THOMAS, CANADA.

WIRE-WEAVING FENCE-MACHINE.

K SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 532,240, datedJanuary 8, 1895. Application filedNovember 29, 1892. Serial No. 453,554.(No model.) Patented in Canada July 13,1892,No. 39,328. i

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD S. MORGAN, of the city of Richmond, in thecounty of Wayne, in the State of Indiana, United States of America, haveinvented certain new and u'seful Improvements in Wire-Weaving Fence-Machines, (for which I have obtained a patent in the Dominion of Canada,No. 39,328, bearing date July 13, 1892 5) and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a elear,'full, and exactdescription of the same.

Reference is made to the drawings, in which-y Figure 1 is an elevationshowing the invention as in operation. Fig. 2 is a section on the line-r/v, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an elevation of a portion of the side of frameA, showing the disks. Fig. et is la perspective view of the wire spooland vits carriage. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the double concaveplate l. Fig. Gis an enlarged 'elevation of the wire spool and itscarriage,'showing the frame A partly broken away. Fig. 7 is an enlargedaccompanying view of the lock' forlthe shifting bars.

This invention has relation to certain new and useful improvements inmachines for weaving wire fences, and it consists in the novelconstruction and combination of parts,

-all as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the appendedclaims.

The invention is more particularly designed as an improvementin thatclass of machines described and claimed in my Patent N o.

432,951, `dated `July 22, 1893, and has for an object the provision ofimproved means for electing the shifting of the wire-carrying spoolsorreels, such means consisting of a series of shifting pins, carried bymovable bars or slides, and themselves carrying double concave plates,which engage with especially7 adapted meanson the carriages, whichcarryv lthe said spools or reels.

A further object of the invention is to provide a self-adjusting lockfor the purpose of Vholding the shifting bars immovable while themachine is in the operation of twisting the wires, and also to preventthe said shifting bars from being moved except at such times as theparts are i'n proper position for shifting. This lock consists of one ormore movable pins adapted to engage with each of the shifting bars andwith the 'operating mechanism, in the manner hereinafter fullydescribed.`

Referring to the accompanying drawings, the letter A designates thesupporting frame constructed and arranged in substantially the mannerset forth in my patent above referred to. Said'frame may be suppliedwith rollers or casters a to enable it to be more readily movable alongabase A', being guided by a pinion b, carried by the said frame andrunning in a rack B on the said base.

The letters C, C designate the wire carrying spools or reels, which arearranged in pairs, the upper spools of the pairs being marked O, and thelower spools C. Each of said spools is carried by a plate or bracket D,which is connected centrally to a second and parallel plate D', by meansof a short arm or bar d. These two plates with the connecting arm, formthe carriage for the spool.

At its upper and lower portion, each plate D is cutaway as indicated ate, said cutaway portions having, adjacent thereto, each a lug orprojection E on that side of the plate farthest from the spool. Theopposite but corresponding surfaces of these lugs or projections arerounded or convex, as shown.

The cut-away portions c are made to permit the said plates to partiallypass the shafts F of the spool-rotating devices.

G designates the shifting bar for the spools C, and G the correspondingbar for the spools C. These bars are made capable of an up and`down reciprocating move'mentin suit` able guides in the frame, and are'connected its upper and lower edge portions. These Vw Y.

concavities are adapted to engage with the rounded lugs or projections Eof the plates D in the manner hereinafter described.

` J designates a series of disks carried each by ashaft F, said disksbeingplaced at intervals corresponding to the distance between thehorizontal wires of the fence, over a vertical slot 7' in the frame orsupport. The shafts F are all intergeared, and may be driven by crankgear K, or by other suitable means. are substantially the same as in thesaid patent. The parallel slots k in said disks are designed to receivethe connecting bars or arms CZ of the spool carriages, as the latter areshifted back and forth.

The operation of the invention as thus far described, is as follows: Themachine being set up in the manner shown in Fig. 1, and it being desiredto continue the diamond shaped Weaving shown in the right hand portionof this figure, the shifting lever G2 is actuated, moving the twoshifting bars G and G in opposite directions. Upon such movement, thedouble concave plates I, carried by the arms of the shifting bar G,engage with the upper convex lugs or projections E of the plates D' ofthe spools C, raising the carriages and spools `of the C series up theslot j into engagement with the slots Zo in the disks J next above therespective spools of said series. At the same time the slide G acts inthe same manner upon the spools of the C series to move them downwardlyinto engagement With the disks next below. The spools are now revolvedby means of the gear therefor, andthe twist is made. The shifting leveris then reversed, and this alternative operation is repeated, the entiremachine in the meantime being moved bodily along the fence the properdistances. The disks J are shown as being provided with guide flanges m.

I will next proceed to describe the second part of my invention, to wit,the self-adjustable lock for the shifting bars.

On one or more of the shafts F of each series, I form a collar L inwhich at one side is a concavity or depression Z. Held loosely in abracket or clip M of the frame, and capable of an endwise movement, is apin N, having at one end a head or convexity n, and at the other end aV-shaped point n', which is designed to engage with one or the other oftwo smallV-shaped notches o, o', formed one abovethe other in the edgeof the shifting bar, said point engaging the notch o when the said baris at the limit of its movement in Vone direction, and the notch o whenthe bar is at its opposite limit. The notch with which the pin is inengagement, is at such time directly opposite the concavity ordepression Z in the collar L, and the said concavity is so situated withrelation to the disk J that it will be in position to receive said headonly when the slots Zo of all said disks are in perpendicular alignment,or in the proper position for the shifting of the spools from one to theother.

These disks with their driving gear The operation is as followsz-The pinN being in engagement with either notch o, o', the impingement of itshead n against the collar 7o L Will prevent the shifting bar frommoving. When however, the parts are i'n proper position for shifting,the head fnl falls into the concavity or depression Z. This releases thepin suiiiciently to permit the shifting bar to be moved, the point nriding-out of one of the notches o or o', and into the other of saidnotches when the movement of the bar is completed. The disk and spoolbeing now rotated to effect the twist, the head n rides out of theconcavity or depression Z, and a lock is again effected. It willbeunderstood that one or more of these locks may be applied to eachshifting bar.

P designates an auxiliary shifting lever.

I-Iaving thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a wire-Weaving fence machine, the combination of a series ofspools, their carriages, the vertically movable shifting` bars, the armsor shifting pins carried by said bars, and double concaved platescarried by said arms or pins and adapted to engage said carriages, andlugs on said carriages with which 9 5 said concaved plates impinge toeffect the shifting substantially as specified.

2. In a Wire-weaving fence machine, the combination of a series ofspools, their carriages having the plates D formed with the convexbearing lugs or projections, the shifting bars, the arms or pins carriedthereby, and the plates carried by said arms or pins and having doubleconcavities for alternate engagement with said lugs or projections,substantially as specitied. Y

3. In a wire Wea-ving'fence machine, the combination with a series ofvertically movable spool-carrying carriages having plates formed withlugs thereon, the oppositely movable shifting levers, and a series ofarms carried by each of said shifting leversone for each of saidcarriages, and disconnected therefrom, said arms terminating inbearings, which upon movement of the shifting levers IOO vplay up anddown between the plates of -the respective carriages with alternateengagement and disengagement therewith, substantially as specified.

4. In 4a Wire Weaving fence machine, the combination with a series ofrotary disks having slots in their upper and lower edges, of the seriesof carriage plates D, D', an arm connecting said plates and designed toengage the slots in the respective disks, the shifting levers, theseries of arms carried by said levers, the double-concave platesattached to said arms, and lugs on one of said carriage plates of eachcarriage of the series adapted to be engaged by the concavities ofsaidplates, 1 3o but disconnected therefrom, substantially as specified.

5. In a wire-weaving fence machine, the combination with a shifting bar,and a shaft which rotates the spools, of a collar on said shaft, aconcavity in said collar, and a locking device adapted to engage thesaid shifting bar and the collar, substantially as specified.

6. In a Wire-weaving fence machine, the combination with the revolvingshaft of the twisting mechanism, and the shifting bar for the carriages,of a self-adjusting locking pin Vhaving a head at one end adapted toengage combination with a shifting bar having V- shaped notches therein,one above the other, a pin having a point adapted to engage with eitherof said notches, a head at the opposite end of said pin, a clip forloosely supporting said pin, of a revolving disk which carries one of`the Wire spools, its shaft, a collar on said shaft, a concavity ordepression in said collar, said concavity or depression being sosituated that when the parts of the machine are in p0- sition to beshifted, it will receive the head of said pin and thereby release itspoint from engagement with the said shifting bar, substantially asspecified.

Dated St.,Thomas, county of Elgin, Ontario, Canada, November 17, 1892.

EDWARD S. MORGAN.

In presence of- W. T. COCHRANE, JAMES M. GLENN. Y

